TY - JOUR T1 - Deep Venous Thrombosis in Dermatomyositis JF - The Journal of Rheumatology JO - J Rheumatol SP - 2288 LP - 2288 DO - 10.3899/jrheum.080478 VL - 35 IS - 11 AU - SHILPA D. GAITONDE AU - STANLEY P. BALLOU Y1 - 2008/11/01 UR - http://www.jrheum.org/content/35/11/2288.abstract N2 - To the Editor: Recent reports suggest a marked increase in incidence of venous thromboembolism (deep vein thrombosis, DVT) in patients withWegener’s granulomatosis1, a finding that has not been explained by common risk factors for thrombophilia2. To our knowledge, an increased incidence of DVT in patients with idiopathic inflammatory myopathy (IIM) has not previously been reported. We describe our experience with a small cohort of patients with IIM. On review of our hospital electronic medical record (with approval from the institutional review board), 54 patients with a diagnosis of IIM were identified from January 1999 to December 2007. IIM was diagnosed ... ER -